It's an interesting marketing gimmick st. valentines...probably sometime ago one bloody restaurant owner decided it would be fun to add yet another excuse in the year to charge shitloads of money for roses, wine and meals..Needless to say he got what he wanted...And here I am the day after st. valentines (singles day) thinking back about my st. valentines dinner..
Knowing of the rushing queues that such events would enlist..I decided to book early at a hotel/restaurant for a dinner with my better half...Having seen suncrest's hotel menu at La Pavillon restaurant I decided to book a table for 2. I drafted an email and after checking for clear details and instructions on how I should be contacted back in order to confirm the reservation I sent the emails..
2 weeks and a half later i still got no reply...So i called..after an endless voyage around the bloody hotels pabx I finally gave up and instructed reception to call me back with a reply. Eventually they called and confirmed..Come the 14th..we arrived at the restaurant to find that it was disgustingly furnished. Well disgusting in a manner of saying as one would expect that a st.valentines dinner with a bloody special and rather non romantic st.valentines price would be accompanied with a nice restaurant filled with red heart shaped balloons, along with red streamers, candles and roses to complement. None of this..except a few hearts cut out of red cardboard by a 3 year old. and a couple of red ballons (ordinary ones).
The food: well this wasnt bad..However for one thing, their buffet tables leave much to be desired...both cold buffet, main course and carvery area have very little space between the bowls were the food is held and the bulbs that light it up were to insert your hand or plate in order to take food or receive food (in case of the carvery).
The food was good...Amazingly there was no chicken to speak off whatsoever...a poor choice when one considers that chicken is the primary food of quite a number of people.
What really made the whole experience not so good was the fact that even tho this is a: ST. Valentines dinnner, with a st.valentines price and st. valentines decorations, the hotel saw fit to still make residents at the hotel eat in the same restaurant as us...resulting in a very large disgustingly load and loathsome group of italians..After they had had their go..the buffet looked like it had just been ran over by a group of baboons that had been in their trees for some 6 weeks cos of floods....The mess was amazing...
bleh...rant over..had it not been for passing the evening with the person I love, I wouldnt even have bothered...
My 2EU cents (that''s all i can afford right now)
